Ambient Noodlings

Happy Sunday! Hope your day is going well. Last week was rough at work was a rough one. I took some time today to chill out on the synths for a while - longer than usual. I felt like creating something fun and whimsical so I just kind of jammed around on my Digitakt with a bunch of different sounds. Patch Notes * Digitakt ran sequences with a few tracks of samples and a MIDI track to Typhon * Typh...

Happy Sunday evening! It’s Labor Day weekend and I’ve been doing my best to try and relax a little while I have an extra couple of days off. I had some time to play around with the synths today. I shuffled some things around, trying some different configurations for my rack and the Digitakt that I’ve been using a lot lately. I’m actually thinking of scaling back on the Eurorack stuff and I configu...

Happy Sunday evening y’all. I’ve got a little jam I put together on my Digitakt for you. It’s easy to get lost on that thing and I can’t even remember what I put on all the tracks now that I’ve recorded it. I am running the Digitakt through my modular rack, with Morphagene, Mimeophon, and FX Aid contributing to the mix. Lots of percussive bits going on, which is kind of what the Digitakt excels at...

Happy Sunday afternoon, y’all. Today’s track is a darkish piece that is inspired by Vangelis’ Blade Runner work. Lots of experimentation going on here. I played around with a few layers to create something deep with one simple sequence. Patch Notes * Digitakt sequencing Typhon mono synth * Typhon sequence was sampled into Mimeophon buffer and Morphagene * Mimeophon is held with original sequence a...

Happy Sunday! I had some fun creating this little jam this afternoon. I picked up a used Dreadbox Typhon synth today in a trade and had my Digitakt controlling it over MIDI. Funny thing is I used to have a Typhon a couple years back or so and sold it when I started dabbling in modular. I missed its sounds - it’s a small box that can sound big and go from brutal to beautiful. Patch Notes * Digitakt...

Happy Sunday! It’s a nice day here and I’ve been enjoying a chill weekend - something that has been all too rare lately! I have something special for today’s ambient track. For quite some time, I’ve been intrigued by the Elektron’s Digitakt. I’ve been watching videos about the Digitakt II with a skeptical mind. One of the things I like so much about modular is the tactile experience. I’ve tried me...

Happy Sunday evening! I’ve been playing around with my Spectraphon today and came up with this little jam. There is a lot of manual manipulation in addition to the usual modulation on this one. I enjoyed the range of tones I was able to pull from this complex oscillator module. All sounds are from the Spectraphon’s various outputs. Patch Notes * Spectraphon sequenced by a pair of Moskwa II sequenc...

Happy Sunday afternoon! Today’s ambient exploration is a journey of some noise through Morphagene for grain extraction and on into Spectraphon to find music in chaos. It’s a lot of fun creating things like this. I’m never sure what I’ll have in the end. Grab some headphones and check it out. Patch Notes * Noise Plethora recorded with Morphagene * Morphagene samples played into Spectraphon * Spectr...

Happy Sunday evening, ambient music fans! I tried to create something simple and relaxing this time because that’s what I need. Things are still busy for me and there is a lot of stress at the moment. Calming music helps. Grab some headphones and take a short break with me. Patch Notes * Spectraphon is sequenced by a pair of Moskwa II sequencers * Filtering by Atlas * Percall used for envelopes *...

Happy Sunday evening y’all. Down to wire for me to get a jam posted again! I needed to spend the holiday weekend working and didn’t get a chance to sit down at the synth until late in the day. Honestly, I just wanted to crash on the couch! The music must go on though. It provides a necessary respite from a long work week. Enjoy. Patch Notes * Spectraphon sequenced by a pair of Moskwa II sequencers...

Happy Sunday evening! Another busy weekend for me and I’m down to the wire to post my weekly ambient track. Feeling a bit dark again I guess, as I’ve got a bit of a brooding drone this time around. I like the atmosphere as I listen through my headphones. Enjoy the darkness. Patch Notes * Morphagene playing some synth samples into Spectraphon * Spectraphon v/oct and Morphagene playback speed sequen...

Happy Sunday, ambient music lovers. After another long, tough work week, today’s modular synth session ended up going kind of dark. I didn’t really have that intention when I sat down to noodle around. Yet, here we are. Maybe I’m reading the news too much. I should stop that. Grab some headphones and check out today’s recording. I’m messing around with more stereo movement and headphones will make...

Happy Sunday! Today’s recording had some obstacles to clear and I wasn’t sure I was going to have a post ready before end of day. I had to work a lot of the weekend and today we had a thunderstorm take out power and Internet connection for several hours. Things finally aligned this evening and I had a little time to squeeze in a bit of noodling on the modular synth. Patch Notes * Spectraphon seque...

Happy Sunday! Today I’ve got a little jam that came together quickly while I was experimenting with a different delay module. I’m trying out an Intellijel Sealegs that may replace both my Mimeophon and FX Aid. The Sealegs caught my attention with its nice tape delay emulation, organic modulation and character, and a lush built-in reverb. It was fun to experiment and explore with it for a while tod...

Happy Sunday, ambient music lovers! Hope you’re enjoying your day. We’ve got sunshine where I’m at after a week of some pretty powerful thunderstorms. I’ve got a pretty chill tune for you that makes good use of the versatility of the Spectraphon. Grab some headphones and give a listen. Patch Notes * Spectraphon sequenced by a pair of Moskwa II sequencers. * Lublin and Maths used for envelopes. * F...

Happy Sunday! Hope y’all are enjoying the holiday weekend, for those of us in the U.S. I’m having a busy weekend myself, getting caught up on a backlog of work. Still found time to jam on the synth a bit, as usual. This is a simple composition using Spectraphon to create a variety of tone. Lovely module! Hope you enjoy. Patch Notes * Spectraphon sequenced by Moskwa II * Lublin used for envelope/VC...

Happy Sunday folks. Let’s get this ambient thing going! I spend some rearranging and reducing in my modular cases yesterday. Not that my rig is that big, relatively speaking, in the Eurorack world. Still, I’ve been looking and listening critically to what I gravitate to and I’m cutting out modules that may be fun or interesting, yet end up distracting me from my “artistic vision.” I’ve cut out eno...

Happy Sunday gang! It’s a nice, mild day where I’m at and it may be the last before the heat of summer starts creeping in later this week. I’ve been able to spend some time outside this weekend and I’m looking forward to an evening walk after posting this tune. Enjoy! Patch Notes * Morphagene playing mangled drum samples into Spectraphon * Spectraphon harmonic output into Panharmonium * Panharmoni...

Happy not Sunday! I’m a day late posting my weekly ambient jam. I finished this recording yesterday and got distracted doing stuff around the house. Late today I realized I never uploaded the recording. Oops. Better late than never, right? Patch Notes * Interstellar Radio into Spectraphon * Spectraphon harmonic outputs through Popple filter * Spectraphon sine wave through wave folder and enveloped...

Happy Sunday folks! I’ve got a little tune I put together over the weekend. I played around quite a bit to get this one patched and arranged. Honestly, I could have gone longer tweaking it. The weekend is almost over though and it’s back to the grind in the morning. Major scale this time, so happier than usual. Think those happy thoughts. Some days it’s all we have. Patch Notes * Interstellar Radi...

Happy Sunday! It’s a beautiful day here after a stormy night, and I just got back from a nice walk around the neighborhood. Today’s jam is a simple little tune I pieced together from noise, which has become a theme for me as of late. I’m really enjoying how harsh sounds can be processed and refined into something pleasant. Patch Notes * Noise from Interstellar Radio recorded into Morphagene * Morp...

Happy Sunday, ambient music lovers! Here’s a jammy little tune I put together this afternoon after a short motorcycle ride. It felt good to get out of the house for a bit and got me in a jamming mood. More fun with music created from noise today. Grab those headphones and check it out. Patch Notes * Schlappi Engineering Interstellar Radio into Morphagene * Samples from Morphagene played into Spect...

Happy Sunday. Music is a source of solace from the stressors of life for me. It’s needed more than ever in our current time. I again worked with noise sources to produce something that I found calming. It’s kind of analogous to life lately. Lots of noise and it’s a challenge to find calm and peace. We do what we can. Patch Notes * Schlappi Engineering Interstellar Radio into Morphagene * Samples f...

Happy Sunday y’all! I’m happy that I found more time to jam around on the synth rack today. Lots of experimentation again, with noise serving as the basis for all things in this track. I’d been dabbling with more conventional sequencing for a while and I’m back to using the Xaoc Leibniz modules for some binary pattern derived drum sequencing. In spite of how it may sound, I find I enjoy discoverin...

Happy Sunday evening. Time for a jam and I’ve got another upbeat tune to share. Not sure if this sort of thing is ambient, but it is a bunch of noodling around. As usual, I did some experimentation with new sounds. Last time I mentioned that I ran some noise through my Spectraphon to create the melody. There’s more of that going on in today’s jam. Additionally, the percussion sounds are all genera...